“Governor Kasich has walked away from his commitment to renewable energy. He and the legislature are creating an unfriendly business environment in Ohio,” Tom Kiernan, chief executive of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), says in a statement.

He contends that legislators rammed through the new requirement in House Bill 483 “without due process” and public debate.

“This isn’t right, and it isn’t fair to Ohio taxpayers and companies that now stand to lose millions of dollars they have already invested into trying to do business in Ohio,” Kiernan adds.

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